Hook and eye holder



June 28, 1932. P. KELLEY HOOK AND EYE HOLDER Filed Dec. 31, 1930 INVENTOR Peter Kelley BY HIS ATTORNEY Patented June 28, 1932 1,865,112

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PETER KELLEY, OF WINSTED, CONNECTICUT HOOK AND EYE HOLDER Application filed December 31, 1930. Serial N 0. 505,949.

This invention relates to portable holding other end section partially filled and in open devices, and more particularly to a holder for position. the hooks, eyes and loops employed as dress Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder fasteners. showing the parts thereof in separated rela- One object of the invention is to provide a tion, prior to assembly. 5. holder of the above nature which is adapted Fig. 3 is a view of an assembled fastener t0 detachably contain a plurality, of dress unit comprising a hook, an eye, and an infastener units, each consisting of a hook havvisible loop. ing an eye and a loop suspended therein. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a modified form A further object is to provide a holder of of hook and eye holder constructed in U- the above nature consisting of a pair of parshape, showing one side of said holder com allel strip members carrying a row of faspletely filled and closed, and the other side tener units therebetween, the eyes and loops partially filled and open. v of said fastener units being located beneath Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the same.

16 said strips, and the eye sections of said hooks Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view taken being located above said strip in such a along the line 66 of Fig. 4. manner as to lock said units in position and Figs. 7 8, and 9 are front views of a hook, to prevent the removal thereof except at the a U-shaped eye, and a straight invisible open end of said holder. 7 loop respectively.

20 A further objectis'to provide adetachable Referring now to the drawing in which holder of the above nature in which the like reference numerals denote corresponding fastener units may be readily removed by the parts throughout the several views, the use of only one hand of the user without numerals 10 and 11 indicate a pair of paraldestroying or otherwise injuring the holder lel strips which will hereinafter be termed 25 as was formerly necessary when removing the back strip and front strip re- 7 fasteners of this nature from cards and prespectively, and between which the rows of vious holding devices. V fastener units, generally indicated by the A further object is to provide a holder for numeral 12, are adapted to be detachably carfastener units in which the expense of asried. Each of the fastener units 12 is made 30 sembling the hooks and eyes therein is'greatup of a wire book 13 having upper eyes 13a, ly reduced. V a U-shaped wire eye 14 and an invisible A further object is to provide a fastener Wire loop 15, said parts being shown sepaunit holder of the above nature, Which will rately in Figs. 7, 8, and 9 respectively, and be simple in construction, inexpensive to s embled ln F 1g. 3.

5 manufacture, easy to fill with fastener units, T StrlR 10 1S Plfowded at lts ends 8 very efficientand durable in use, ornamental Wlth a of lnwal'dly Offset outwardly CII e AGI'GID 1n. a compac manner or am 1- I a and l l i li t h ezc ii d other ob'ects in view there Strip The tongues 16 and 17 are adapted h We t t (10 in to aline wlth the tongues 18 and19 and to een 1 LS m e n f g contact therewlth lightly for facilitating the drawing, two forms in which the invention insertion and removal of the assembled fas- 45 may be conven ently embodied in practice. tener units 12 through the Openings 20 and In the drawing: v

g- 1 represents a p r p v View 011-311 In order to press the row of fastener units enlarged scale of a hookand eye holder of the 12 constantly toward the front strip 11 of straight type, showlng one end section each receiving chamber 21a of the holder,

-5 thereof completely filled andclosed, and the provision is made of an elongated spring strip 22 having a straight central section 23, said spring strip 22 being provided with forwardly curved extremities 24 and 25 terminating just short of the offset tongues 16, 17 18 and 19.

To connect the front and back strips 10 and 11 and lock the spring strip 22 therebetween, the central portion of the front strip 11 is provided with a rearwardly offset section. 26 spaced from the front of said strip 11 by a distance slightly greater than the width of the fastener units.

The offset section 26 is adapted to lie in contact with the central section 23 of the spring strip 22 and is securely held to the back strip 10 by a pair of side lugs 27 and 28 extending forwardly from the central portion of said back strip 10 and adapted to be bent around said spring strip 22 and offset section 26, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The bent-over side lugs 27 and 28 at the center of the hook and eye holder may be covered, if desired, by a paper strip, not shown, having any suitable ornamental or advertising matter. The pairs of resilient tongues, 16, 18 and 17, 19 at the ends of the holder may be similarly covered by detachable paper loops 29 and 30 which serve to hold said tongues in contact and prevent the accidental loss of any of the fastener units during storage or shipment.

The modified form of the U-shaped holder shown in Fig. 4is similar with the first form of the invention except that the end sections 31 and 32 thereof are bent in the same direction and lie at right angles to the central section 33 thereof. This produces a dress fastener holder of about one-half the length of the first form.

Operation When it is desired to fill the holder with fastener units 12, it will merely be necessary for the operator to hold said units parallel to the plane of the front and back strips 10 and 11 and pass them inwardly between the cooperating end tongues. The units may then be twisted 90 degrees to the position shown in Figs. 1, 4 and 5, being thereafter held in this position by the pressure of the curved extremities 24 and 25 of the spring clip 22. 7

When the receiving chambers have been completely filled, the ends of the tongues 16 and 18, 17 and 19 may be detachably locked together in contacting engagement by the locking loops 29 and 30.

To remove the fastener units from the holder, the locking loops 29 and 30 will first be taken 0E, thereby opening the ends of the holder, whereupon the endmost fastener units may be readily moved manually out of the receiving chambers in a longitudinal direction, past the end of the spring strip'22 and out between the inwardly oflset end tongues 16, 18, and 17, 19.

While there have been disclosed in this specification two forms in which the invention may be embodied, it that these forms are shown for the purpose of illustration only, and that the invention is not to be limited to the specific disclosures but may be modified and embodied in various other forms without departing from its spirit. In short, the invention includes all the modifications and embodiments coming within the scope of the following claims.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new, and for which it is desired to secure Letters Patent, is

1. In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units, each comprising an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a pair of connected parallel spaced strips of sheet metal for receiving said units in a row, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, and inwardly offset means on the ends of said strips for closing the ends of said strips to prevent accidental removal of said units.

2. In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units each comprising an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a pair of connected parallel spaced outwardly pressed strips of sheet metal for receiving a row of said units, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, said strips having inwardly offset ends, and loop means for detachably locking the ends of said strips together.

3. In a holder for aplurality of dress fastener units, each comprising an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a pair of connected par allel outwardly pressed resilient spaced strips for receiving a row of said units, each unit lying at right-angles strips, and loop means for detachably locking the ends of said strips together, each of said strips having offset inwardly extending end tongues for contacting each other when said loop means is in position.

4. In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units each comprising an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a pair of connected parallel resilient spaced normally divergent strips for receiving a row of said units, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, loop means for detachably locking the ends of said strips together, and means for permanently joining the center of said strips to provide a pair of end chambers for receiving two sets of said fastener units, whereby said units may be assembled and removed from both ends of said holder.

5. In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units each comprising an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a pair of connected par allel spaced strips for receiving a row of said units, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, loop means for detachably locking the ends of said strips is to be understood to the plane of said together, and means for permanently pointing the center of said strips to provide a pair of end chambers for receiving two sets of said fastener units, the end of said holder being bent in the same direction to produce a U-shape holder.

6. In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units, each comprising an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a pair of connected parallel spaced strips for receiving a row of said units, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, loop means for detachably locking the ends of said strips together, each of said strips having offset inwardly extending end tongues for contacting with the ends of the other strip,and a spring strip located between said spaced strips to hold said units in position even though one of said spaced strips is flexed outwardly.

3e 7 In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units, each comprising an assembled hool eye, and loop, a pair of connected parallel spaced strips for receiving a row of said units, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, loop means for detachably locking the ends of said strips together, each of said strips having oflset inwardly extending end tongues for contacting with the ends of the other strip, and

a spring strip the ends of which terminate short of said offset tongues located between said spaced strips to hold said units in position even though one of said spaced strips is flexed outwardly.

8. In a holder for a row of dress fastener units, each of which comprises an assembled hook, eye, and loop, a back strip having inwardly ofi'set tongues at its opposite ends, and a pair of intermediate forwardly extending lugs, a front strip having inwardly ofi'set tongues adapted to engage the correspending tongues on said back strip and having an intermediate offset section in alinement with said lugs, a spring strip lying between saidback and front strips, said lugs being bent over around said spring strip and front strip for locking said parts together.

9. In a holder for a plurality of dress fastener units, each comprising an assembled 5o hook, eye, and resilient normally loop, a pair of resilient normally diverging spaced strips of strip metal for receiving said units in a row, means for connecting said strips at a point between their ends, each unit lying at right-angles to the plane of said strips, and means for connecting the ends of said strips to lock said units within said holder.

In testimony whereof, I have affixed my signature to this specification.

PETER KELLEY.

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,865,112. June 28, 1932.

PETER KELLEY.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification of the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page 3, line 1, claim 5, for the syllable "p0int-" read join-, and line 4, for "end" read ends; same page, line 50, claim 9, strike out the words "resilient normally"; and that the said Letters Patent should be'read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 4th day of October, A. D. 1932.

M. J. Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

